Table of Contents

Introduction: A Materialist Theology? The Approach of This Book Hegel Lacan Marx Chapter 1: Ideology Critique Ideology in Practice The Challenge of Cynicism Ideology and the big Other The Stumbling Block of the Real Keeping Enjoyment at Bay Liberal Democracy and Nationalism Chapter 2: Subjectivity and Ethics The Real as Sexual Difference The "Vanishing Mediator" Fantasy and the Big Other Diagnosing Ethics The Cure Chapter 3: The Christian Experience Prefiguring the Theological Turn A Politics of Truth The Reign of Perversion Job and Judaism Cross and Collective Love Beyond the Law Chapter 4: Dialectical Materialism, or The Philosophy of Freedom What is Dialectical Materialism? Self-Consciousness as Short Circuit The Anti-Adaptive Animal Theological Materialism The Politics of Refusal, or, Waiting on the Holy Spirit Chapter 5: Theological Responses An Inventory of Theological Themes Responses from Radical Orthodoxy Other Theological Responses Žižek's "Method of Correlation" Žižek and Tradition Religionless Christianity and the Death of God

Promotional Information

Slavoj Žižek's work on Christianity often overwhelms students due to its complexity and usual concepts. This book will assist students in getting to grips with Žižek's earlier and more recent works with an eye toward what brings him to an explicit engagement with Christianity.

About the Author

Adam Kotsko is Visiting Assistant Professorof Religions at Kalamazoo College (USA). His current research interests include 20th century European philosophy and early Christian thought.

Reviews

"a useful introduction to Žižek's theological writing - and it will be especially useful for those who've been wanting to read Žižek, but don't know where to start" Dr Benjamin Myers, Faith and Theology Blog

"this remains the best introduction to Zizek and theology currentlt available" "theologians sarching for handles by which to grapple with Zizek are indebted to Kotsko for his work" Religious studies Review, June 2009
*Myle Werntz, Baylor University*

Kotsko provides an excellent review of Zizek's writing on ideology and subjectivity... [The author] helps non-Christians appreciate how far Zizek is immersed in these other worlds, and the complexity and depth of his argument for a dialectical material standpoint...
*Subjectivity Vol. 3, 1, 122-124*